Donovan Butler, 11, a sixth grade student at Xavier's Lower School was recognized over the weekend as the "best and brightest" student coming out of the primary schools this year. Donovan was chosen over 117 of his peers to walk away with the top prize of a $5,000 scholarship and a computer at the 18th annual Bahamas Primary School Student of the Year Awards Program (BPSSYAP).
He was the first stu...

Funeral service for Clifford Alexander Kemp, 46, a resident of Lewis Street will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 3rd 2011 at St Cecelia’s Catholic Church, Third Street, Coconut Grove. Officiating will be Monsignor Alfred C Culmer, assisted by Deacon Dennis C Mackey. Interment will be made in Catholic Cemetery, Infant view Road.
Clifford was predeceased by his father Arthur Kemp.
Lef...

Lucaya International School's (LIS) Michaela Ince will be attending Pomona College with the knowledge that her undergraduate degree studies will be paid for in full as the winner of the Grand Bahama Port Authority's (GBPA) top achiever award. As the winner, she was granted a full four-year scholarship for the college of her choice.
Ince, who was also the valedictorian of the class of 2014, said he...

Mr. Althorne Brett "Tootes" Toote Sr. age 32 years of Crawford Street, Oakes Field and formerly of Freeport, Grand Bahama will be held on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 11am at Faith Temple Ministries International, Prince Charles Drive. Bishop Philemon R. Wilson, assisted by Rev. Carlos Thompson will officiate and burial will be in Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Mausoleums, John F. Kennedy Drive and G...

Grand Bahama is rapidly regaining its big reputation for the hosting of sports tourism events. Sports tourism, indeed, abounds in Grand Bahama. Whether of the purely domestic kind or heavy on the foreign element, Grand Bahama is becoming once again a strong rival of New Providence.
Just this week, Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe and ministry officials met with the aviation tourism power organi...

A man was shot dead as he rode his bicycle on Honeycomb Street on Monday night, police said.
Superintendent Paul Rolle said the man was riding in the area, off East Street, when two men wearing hooded jackets accosted him around 9:20 p.m.
"One produced a weapon and began discharging at the direction of the male on the bicycle and hit him multiple times about the body, fatally wounding him," Rolle ...

Despite hobbling around on one leg for most of the night, Diasti Delancey came up big when her team needed her the most, to preserve a 68-63 win over the Career Builders Cheetahs last night, wrapping up the New Providence Women's Basketball Association (NPWBA) Championship series, three games to two.
The series and the game went down to the wire and Delancey showed that her coach's decision to go ...

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